Dana, Ariel; (2018) Siting Language. [Magazine_article]. Moveable Type , 10 , Article 2. 10.14324/111.1755-4527.079.

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The following words and images form part of my research project entitled Sites of Unlearning: Encountering Perforated Ground undertaken at the Slade School of Fine Art. In this essay I revisit sites in Israel and Palestine, where I have been photographing for the past four years. My encounters with these sites include the visits to the sites with a camera, a visit informed by the political and historical narratives and the performative act of photography, and revisits to the sites through the printing process and their belated reflections offered in words. My works seek to perforate: in the literal sense, I aim to pierce through the multiple layers held tightly in the photographic image and its making, and metaphorically, to perforate an already perforated ground found in the landscape and language. My approach to writing emerged from a practice of making. Through the medium of photography, I use the negative as the ground for experimentation with edges of sights and sites. Methods used in the printing process, such as the stretching of what can be made visible on paper, is used to stretch the various meanings offered by words and their repeated translation into other languages. Here, misunderstanding and misreading of both images and words aim to offer generative ways of seeing.

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